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Music or books which has had more influence on you?
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By *xpresMan
over a year ago
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The Album that I can not do without in my life is Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction
Listens to it approx 2/3 times a week since 87...
I don't read fiction but last book that Blew me away was Girl A.. the story of the main girl in the Rochdale child rape scandal |
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By *afadaoMan
over a year ago
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All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy. Most beautiful boom I've read.
It was so descriptive and romantic that I immediately yearned to see America. It was set in Texas (and Mexico) but I managed to wangle a month off work and head to California, Utah, Arizona and Nevada.
Proper cowboy for a month and an unforgettable experience. |
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"All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy. Most beautiful boom I've read.
It was so descriptive and romantic that I immediately yearned to see America. It was set in Texas (and Mexico) but I managed to wangle a month off work and head to California, Utah, Arizona and Nevada.
Proper cowboy for a month and an unforgettable experience."
Cool!! I did a few weeks in CA and Texas with proper cowboys - specifically the sage horse whispering types. It's a whole different pace of life, I love those guys.
But music has always been my biggest influence - start listening to Led Zep at 13 years of age and anything can happen!!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Never really been big on book reading - I mean, I can read, it's just not something that really appeals much.
Now Music - that's a completely different matter.
Been Djing and playing guitar for over 20 years now, so you could say that Music is a big part of my life.
Enjoy a good broad range of artists, but top of the list goes to :
Pink Floyd, ELO, Green Day
Also, was a massive Jacko fan in the late 80's - 'Bad' era.
I tend to merit a song on it's own qualities rather than who it's by.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I can't separate the two. Books and music both provide a way to find new and exciting ideas and states of mind.
If pushed, I'd say music. Probably. With a good lyric sheet.
And you can't read a book when you're driving a car, but you can imagine you're cruising down sunset strip if you've got the right tunes. Even if you're just stuck on a bleak ring road. |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"I can't separate the two. Books and music both provide a way to find new and exciting ideas and states of mind.
If pushed, I'd say music. Probably. With a good lyric sheet.
And you can't read a book when you're driving a car, but you can imagine you're cruising down sunset strip if you've got the right tunes. Even if you're just stuck on a bleak ring road. "
Totally agree.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I can't separate the two. Books and music both provide a way to find new and exciting ideas and states of mind.
If pushed, I'd say music. Probably. With a good lyric sheet.
And you can't read a book when you're driving a car, but you can imagine you're cruising down sunset strip if you've got the right tunes. Even if you're just stuck on a bleak ring road. Totally agree. "
Me too |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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My individuality is at my very core, I have always preferred to stand alone and be me, than stand with others and become them.
Any music that celebrates difference, I am in.
I am more driven by Art, than literature.
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I'd have to say books. My Grandad taught me to read very young, and they have always been my escape route. When life wasn't quite playing nice, I'd hide in a book. Alice in Wonderland was my childhood favourite.
But music has that power too. Early Bon Jovi or GnR full blast and the world ceases to exist for a while. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Both. I grew up with the likes of Lord of the Flies, Beowulf and The Waterbabies. Classic stuff and still relevant as an adult.
In music, Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds had a huge impact on me and I grew up with Dire Straits, Deacon Blue and Iron Maiden.
Still I was of the generation that played hundreds of cheap computer games and watched every action movie in existence, so I am pretty well balanced for indoor activities as a child lol |
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By *omMLMan
over a year ago
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I love reading but if I had to choose one it would be music. If I am working it's classical. Exercising Soul, Pop & Dance. For everything else it's Rock. The Who, Stones, Doors, Kinks., Zep, Floyd, ACDC et al. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Book : "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse... helped me to realise that the road to enlightenment was via living life to the full, mixing things up, and keeping yourself fresh. Still living by that today 
Music : Tekno tekno tekno ... totally blew my head off when I first heard it, made me into a little boy raver, and I guess I'm always gonna be a bit of a Tekno hippy because of it  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes i like some music and certain books
Too I,m reading one now by michael wood
On the history of england I can,t normally
Just pick a book up I have to be in that
mood or right time of the week, where music is different and uplifting for me
If I like the music It can normally have
The edge over reading (uplifting and spontaineous) Is the phrase I,d use.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Both but music in the main tunes have chilled me out got me through stressful times and there are a few lyrics that have brought things into perspective. |
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